Get a cat. Had mice in an Appartment we stayed at. One morning my cat had 4 dead, never saw any mice in there again. Word spread I guess

The water thing can happen more easily if you think, especially if it's a dug well. We had one with the tight-fitting, heavy cement cap and small snakes would crawl up underneath and fall in. We put in filtration and had to take measures to drive out snakes from the yard.

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An angrily worded letter. They might send him some coupons for a $1 off a soy machioto

Listen. Five gallon bucket with a lid. Cut a hole in the lid for the mouse the get in. A little bit of brake fluid on the bottom. It will get rid of a lot of mice

Yeah. He’s guilty.

It’s crappy that debate criteria requires a fund raising minimum.

It’s really crappy that this fund raising is a way to shut out all who aren’t major party supported candidates.

The watchdog is a liberal advocacy group, so no surprises that they are after him.

Thank you for the insightful advice you’ve given

Ok

Yes, it’s legal. Once your lease is up, they don’t have to renew or give you a reason. Just like you can leave once the lease is up with no reason. You both however, need to give notice - 30 days for the landlord and whatever is in your lease for you.

There are ways of conveying that information with respect to anyone who might not know that. There are also ways of venting your frustrations in a respectful way. I’m a respectful person who is sympathetic to political and economic issues and would’ve appreciated the clue in and I thank you for your comment, as I truly didn’t know. I haven’t really browsed the sub before and just made a simple post asking for help.

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As long as we agree this is all the fault of the wealthy it shouldn’t last long tho

>life will get to the point where it sucks badly enough for all normal Americans that votes will cease to be the primary method for driving political change

They already have — at least at the national level. We live in an effective oligarchy where the "democratic" institutions at our disposal are so poor that the public serves more of an advisory role than anything else. We've just deluded ourselves into believing our own propaganda about "freedom" and "democracy." At the end of the day, though, most of our problems boil down to precisely a lack of those things.

hey guys, bernie wrote us a really mean letter. better knock it off!

Nice. I’m glad that we have out of state people owning land in Vermont while Vermonters are suffering from a horrible housing crisis.

You out of state owners need to be taxed to hell.

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I don’t think armed civil war is a reality any time soon and I don’t think economic boycotts or other acts of non approved civil disobedience will be tolerated by the power class at any level that has a real impact.

Reddit seems to get foamy at the mouth and call people fascist when they say both sides but come on man, both sides. One side is openly shitty with openly shitty people the other side is a little less shitty on social issues, with a couple decent people, but mostly full of greedy opportunistic profiteers.

At this point voting on a federal level is akin to making the decision to treat a gunshot would with a bandaid or dirty rag. Neither will really help, one will cause an active infection but both are going to leave you dead in roughly the same amount of time.

The US experiment is failing due to greed and a political system designed to keep the rich rich and the poor begging for crumbs.

I wish I had a better attitude about all this but even this article is a perfect example. Someone in Washington takes note of a union busting organization and what do they do? Write a strongly worded letter and people cheer.

We are at a point where we need to do something, anything, to make a change. Half measures will avail us nothing and lip service is getting old.

Be the change you want to see in the world but prepare for shit to get worse, and not better. I predict legal weed will be the 2024 distraction. Hey all, our healthcare system continues to crumble.... but you can buy legal weed now.

Mice are terrible! Nothing worse than trying to catch them yet hearing them in the walls as though they are taunting you.

Even exterminators will just set a ton of traps and keep changing them, so keep going with that if it's working. If you have an area outside you should do a bucket trap, with some water/anti-freeze (or something that won't freeze), it doesn't need to be reset with each kill. https://www.amazon.com/RinneTraps-Bucket-Outdoor-Compatible-Manufacturer/dp/B08SL6KJ29

You may be interested in this podcast. I linked episode one, season one is all this story. It is a STORY, but it was written by a journalist who has seen the worst of American imperialism carried out since 2008/2009 or so when he began his career.

Hate to break it to you but yes, it would be legal.

For the water one, that sucks but that is VT. Growing up my school would have a boil water notice regularly because we were near a number of farms and the runoff impacted water quality. It still happens in a lot of places. If does not excuse it and the landlord should have done all they could to quickly fix it. I was more saying it is not uncommon or surprising.

For the mice, look at it from the other side. You called and reported them to the health inspector for a mice infestation that was not real. The health inspector said to keep using traps implying it is a normal level of mice in a VT trailer. Would you keep a renter who reported you to the state for a imagined infestation.

I’ll probably be downvoted again, I’ve been downvoted before but... VT renters rights are only good on paper. Once you get the state involved you realize they don’t really care and your landlord can legally kick you out (for a totally and unrelated coincidence of course). Complain and make reports at your own risk.

I used Orkin to get the mice out of my 75 year old home. $50 a month for all pests (except mosquitos), and after about a year, I no longer have spiders, ants, mice, or any of the other crap. I originally called them for carpenter ants that made a nest in the master bedroom after the drones fell on my face while I was sleeping. It’s not cheap, but some things are worth the money.

Have you heard of the deep state?

There will come a time, I fear in my lifetime, when life will get to the point where it sucks badly enough for all normal Americans that votes will cease to be the primary method for driving political change, and that worries me.

I really don't want to experience the next US civil war, but I don't doubt it's coming.

They are pets as well rather than livestock. It’d just be a shame for us, great for the cats though.

If only he had that much power. His colleagues will never